Would Defunding Police Make Us Safer?

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Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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City and state budgets are in serious trouble after the pandemic-induced economic slowdown. Some protesters have a proposal: defund the police. Sociologist Alex Vitale, author of “The End of Policing,” explains the research and nuance behind the idea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello?
0:04.7	Hi Catherine.
0:06.5	How you doing?
0:07.7	I'm okay.
0:08.7	how are you?
0:09.7	uh, I'm okay.
0:11.1	I've discovered like a life hack. Oh no. What is your life hack? So I am ashamed to admit that I don't read books very often. I mean I've read books trust me I've
0:25.6	definitely read books but you know people in recent weeks have been sharing all
0:30.9	of these wonderful resources and books you can read to sort of
0:34.1	engage with the moment and learn more about the history of what's going on right now and, you know,
0:38.6	policy solutions and everything and I'm like, you know, how am I ever? It'll take me a lifetime at the rate I go. So this is the life hack I discovered.
0:49.1	Audio books on double speed. It's like you haven't been listening to me for years that I've
0:58.8	been evangelizing audio books. It actually reminded me, listening on Double Speen actually reminds me, so I watch The Matrix recently, and they have these scenes where they basically like download programs into the people's brains, you know?
1:14.0	I never seen it.
1:15.0	You've never seen the Matrix?
1:16.8	No.
1:17.8	Oh my God.
1:18.8	Well, okay, they can upload programs into their brains and they like sort of kind of shake and are like,
1:26.5	whoa, and then they all of a sudden know all this stuff.
1:29.4	Why does it make them shake?
1:30.9	Well, I imagine learning that in for much information in that short amount of time
1:35.5	must be a very intense experience. Anyway, yeah I'm sure it stimulates mere motor
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